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We know that the achievements of our organization are due to the passion, hard work and creativity of our employees. We celebrate different perspectives to foster excellence across our organization, and our goal is to make diversity a foundation of what we do. We are proudly building an environment where you can bring your authentic self to work.

• Enjoy doing things that people say can’t be done? Innovation is at the center of everything we do.
• Hate red tape? We remove roadblocks instead of creating them.
• Working parent? We provide childcare assistance and paid parental leave.
• Student? We offer continuing education assistance.
• Looking for community? There are many ways to get involved, from Employee Resource Groups to local outreach.

Here’s the Gist

In this role, as an HR Business Partner, you will assist in providing a wide range of HR partnership to the Materials Operations organization at the John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide (the “JP”), located in Siler City, NC. The successful candidate will play a key role in the success of the organization and site by offering guidance on employee relations, performance management, recruitment, and HR best practices while facilitating a positive relationship between employees and leadership.

The Day-to-Day:

• Collaborate with leaders to support the HR Department’s mission to be the company with the best talent, leaders, and culture, at scale.
• Develop rapport, build credibility and influence internal stakeholders and employees by providing constant partnership and feedback to business leaders at all levels to help them get the best out of their employees.
• Collaborate as part of the JP Materials leadership team to support and instill the leadership and culture pillars of the organization and consistently demonstrate, and reinforce in others, the Wolfspeed culture of safety, integrity, ingenuity, and accountability.
• Be an agent of change to partner with the manufacturing organization to continually improve how we operate by inspiring and influencing other.  Promote, champion, enable, and support efforts to improve the world’s first 200mm SiC wafer manufacturing facility every day
• Support consistent application of HR programs, policies and practices across the JP site.
• Participate and facilitate activities that increase organizational performance including leadership effectiveness, operational performance, talent growth and teambuilding.
• Work on assigned programs and special projects on a regular basis.
• Act as a liaison between entire JP site leaders/employees (beyond the Materials Operations organization), and their department’s HRBPs.

This Job is Right for You if You Have (Minimum Requirements):

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience as an HR Generalist/HRBP.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant HR experience including employee relations in an internal customer-facing role.
• Experience accessing, compiling, and leveraging data and metrics.  Proven technical proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of cultures, thinking styles, and approaches and maintain the highest standards for confidentiality of proprietary and sensitive information.
• Passion for working in a team environment; shows resiliency and a sense of humor.
• Aptitude for fostering a climate of candor, humility, adaptation, and trust; enables constructive conversations on alternative approaches with leaders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability and interest in partnering with a 24/7 manufacturing workforce.  This includes ability to spend at least 75% of standard working hours onsite; have the energy and comfort with wearing appropriate PPE while engaging enthusiastically with the team in a 1 M sq ft manufacturing facility.

This role may require additional duties and/or assignments as designated by management.

To put it legally – Wolfspeed is an equal opportunity employer.

We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other protected status as required by law.

Wolfspeed is a powerhouse semiconductor company focused on silicon carbide and GaN technologies.

After more than thirty years of forging new technology adoption and transformation, our Wolfspeed® power and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors are leading the industry through unrivaled expertise and capacity.

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